Program areas at Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater HoustonGalveston / Galveston
Our Ronald McDonald Care Mobile (RMCM) Program is a state-of-the-art fully-equipped pediatric clinic on wheels. Designed from the ground up to meet the specific well-care and treatment needs of children, it is staffed by pediatricians, nurse practitioners, nurses, and medical assistants from Texas Children's Hospitals. The Ronald McDonald Care Mobile Clinic focuses on the most medically under-served areas of our community. Children receive quality health care free of charge, and services include: vaccines, annual physicals, urgent care, hearing/vision screenings, free medicine for uninsured children through on-site TCH pharmacy, and many other standard medical procedures.
See Schedule ORonald McDonald C.H.E.E.R.! (Children's Health Education Enrichment Resource) Rooms provide a fun, colorful, welcoming environment and an educational place for children to wait while their mothers receive prenatal care at UTMB Regional Maternal and Child Health Program Clinics. The non-clinical staff keep children occupied with age-appropriate mini-lessons in health, wellness & literacy allowing mothers to focus their attention on the health care providers giving them critical information about their own health and the health of their unborn child. There are RM C.H.E.E.R.! Rooms located in Katy, Conroe, Pasadena, and Pearland, Texas. In 2022, a C.H.E.E.R.! Room was added at Star of Hope Mission, an organization supporting the homeless population, to provide parents a place to leave their children while participating in the Employment Readiness Program.
RMHCGHG provides grants to Ronald McDonald House of Houston and Ronald McDonald House of Galveston, which provide temporary lodging, meals and other support to children and their families when they must travel long distances to access high quality medical care. These houses help families stay close to their ill or injured child during their hospital stay. The Ronald McDonald Houses also provide families with emotional and physical comfort and increase the caregivers' ability to spend more time with their child, interact with their clinical care team and participate in critical medical care decisions.
The Ronald McDonald Hospitality Carts at several area hospitals provide a much-needed respite opportunity for the families of hospitalized newborns. Family caregivers are sometimes considered a "secondary patient or a "hidden patient," also needing (but rarely receiving) self-care assistance in the form of food, comfort items, and a break from the child's bedside in order to provide adequate care to their child.